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Mark Lee
Asked: 2020-05-30 08:23:33 +0800 CST

How to save files from applications to external hard drives?

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I have a two part matter for clarification. I have an external hard disk drive with two partitions. Each time I shut down the machine and start I have to mount the partitions.

(1) How do I configure it so that the partitions are **automatically** mounted on each boot?

(2) How do I make the partitions accessible to be able to save directly to them from applications? At present I can't navigate to them from application menus or set file paths for example for a video capture location. However, I can open them via the File Manager to drag and drop or copy files.

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.

Thanks.

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    1. There are answers related to this question already

      Basically using the GUI method you use the disks or gnome-disks program to mount the drive on startup. On the command line you edit /etc/fstab with a line that looks something like this 

      UUID=<uuid> <pathtomount> <filesystem> defaults 0 0

    2. For me, the path to the external drives is /media/user_name/drive_identifier. I am able to go there after mounting the drives. Alternatively you could mount the drives to a different designated folder and access them there.

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